that well-functioning credit markets would reflect a bank channel for monetary policy at work, we test whether a change in … and the associated change in interest rate does not affect change in bank credit, change in total debt and the proportion … of bank credit in total debt for any of the firms. We discuss the policy implications of the findings. …

having a mortgage in Spain. Similarly, the higher the mortgage depth in the country of ancestry, the higher the present value … of the monthly mortgage payments. Our results suggest that social norms regarding mortgage finance in the country of … ancestry matter in determining immigrants' mortgage finance in the host country. More specifically, the effect of social norms …

determinants of access to mortgage finance. It also examines whether mortgage holders were more likely to suffer financial distress … compared with non-mortgage holders in the period before the global financial crisis. The analysis does not find any systematic … evidence that mortgage holders are financially more vulnerable than renters or outright owners; in fact, the incidence of …

Using comparable survey data from twelve European countries we investigate households' attitudes towards mortgage … households have a mortgage outstanding relative to countries where a sizeable part of the population uses mortgage debt, like the … reference households, and crucially so in countries with less expanded mortgage markets. Thus it appears that households …

Insights to detect ensuing mortgage delinquencies. Such searches locate documents which assist to write a successful loan … housing research. -- housing ; hardship letter ; loan delinquency ; mortgage ; National Delinquency Survey (NDS) ; financial …

In this paper, we investigate whether evidence of discriminatory treatment against immigrants in the Spanish mortgage …-Blinder decomposition to measure the extent to which this disparate treatment of lenders in mortgage pricing against immigrants is due to … borrowers can be attributed to discriminatory treatment. -- immigration ; discrimination ; mortgage pricing ; housing market …

debt. We study the Dutch context, where qualifying homeowners can buy into a mortgage guarantee scheme that insures the … administrative data, we find a significant, 44% increase in the probability to divorce for households with an underwater mortgage … mortgage. Their home equity averages to about €-50.000. Couples with similar characteristics just above the qualification …